CVE-2015-7547 Advisory & Mitigation

Three days ago, Google publicly discussed a vulnerability in glibc that an adversary could exploit by crafting DNS requests for domains in their control. Given we operate DNS for our customers, this issue had our full attention. We wanted to take a moment to discuss our response to this issue and the additional precautions we have taken.

We added additional monitoring to immediately inform us if requests potentially trying to exploit this vulnerability are seen

These mitigations help protect strongarm.io users from malicious DNS responses trying to exploit this vulnerability. If you haven’t already, we urge you to ensure all your computers and phones have the latest security updates.